My mother's cousin is 81 and a Holocaust survivor, living in Southern California. She was born in Debrecen Hungary and her father was taken into the Labor Battalion (6th Battalion) in 1942 or 43, when

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This reminded me of a different volume with lots of information on the Jewish community of Balassagyarmat, also including many victims' names. It seems to be published by the Nógrád County Archives an

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How much text is there? If it's a modest amount, then posting to ViewMate as Julia suggested can work. There are also Facebook forums where volunteers are doing an incredible service helping people un

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For convenience, here's the direct link to Bernard Flam's instructions on researching in France: https://groups.jewishgen.org/g/main/message/646211 Peter Cherna

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Dear Hilary, The reporter is Dr. Orbán Laszloné, which in English would be Mrs. Dr. Laszló ORBÁN, that is the reporter is the wife (or widow) or Laszló ORBÁN, (the -né suffix in Hungarian signifies th

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Eric, it depends on which database. If you click through to the info link on a given database, the page that tells you about the origin and contents of the database often has contact info for the proj

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Dear Selma, I appreciate your conundrum, and understand your desire here. That said, if the JewishGen database entries match the source documents from which they are based (e.g. birth registers), but

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The digital records for the Vienna Marriages database are deemed correct when they match the specific source documents from which that database was derived. If you have different, also valid documents

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"Alternate asset manager" is a broad and loose term that includes venture capitalists and private equity fund managers. Imprecisely, it means managing money in ways other than buying and selling publi

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I have a handful of audio and video recordings of my parents and other relatives for which I would love to have transcriptions. In the spring I found a (not free) web site called https://veed.io to wh

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I have found some elementary school yearbooks on hungaricana.hu, in case someone is interested in hunting. (I was searching by family name, which is viable for unusual family names but hopeless for co

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Lots of good comments above. For sure you'll get best results from a flatbed scanner. Scanning time is another factor to keep in mind. The Canon LiDE 220 is a very good inexpensive scanner and at 600d

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The hungaricana.hu web site has digitized phone books and lots of other resources. https://library.hungaricana.hu/hu/collection/fszek_budapesti_telefonkonyvek/

Please see this photo that I have posted on ViewMate at the following address ... http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM55251 Please respond via the form provided in the ViewMate ap

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Please see this photo that I have posted on ViewMate at the following address ... http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM55251 Please respond via the form provided in the ViewMate ap

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